The White Falcon - 01.04.1944, Blaðsíða 4

THE WHITE FALCON
OUR FORCES — ALWAYS ALERT
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the supervision of Special Service Section, Iceland Base Com-
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home for one cent.
THE WHITE FALCON is written and edited by enlisted-man
personnel.
IBC Special Service Officer..Lt. Col. Lee F. Gilstrap.
Supervising Officer .........Lt. David Zinkoff.
Managing Editor .............S/Sgt. John G. Wentworth.
Associate Editors ...........T/4 Joseph T, Koren
T/5 John Moran
Circulation Manager .........Pvt. Robert Hill
A Little Help, Please!
Anything can happen in the Army—and does. In civi-
lian life fight promoters moan about too many cards,
and too few spectators. In this Command, however, the
opposite is True. It’s a case of too many fans* and too
few fighters.
Asked his interpretation of the condition, an officer
high in local fight circles placed the onus squarely on
the shoulders of the unit commanders. Some of the com-
manders have been most cooperative, but there are
plenty of good sluggers kicking around who have not
keen encouraged to participate in the bouts by their
officers, or have not been given an opportunity to train.
He pointed to the obvious morale-building aspects of
the athletic events at Andrews Memorial Fieldhouse, and
said these events could continue on the big scale of the
past, only if there were active interest and cooperation
on the part of officers in whose outfits fighters are
to be found. And here again, unit commanders and
Special Service Officers are reminded of their responsi-
bility to bring their fighters out of hiding.
The fieldhouse is waiting, the bleachers are groaning
under capacity crowds, trainers are ready and eager.
Let’s make the most of them.
“Is he the guy from Iceland?”
CUTIES By E. Simms Campbell
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WHICH'IS OUR GREATER
ENEMY — GERMANY
OR JAPAN?
“I’d say Germany is — from
the English
standpoint,” an-
swered LAC
Earnest Davies
of the RAF. Nat-
urally, this does-
n’t hold for Am-
erica, which is
so much farther
removed from
the Nazis.” In civilian life Davies
was a tailor in Swansea, Wales,
Seaman Second Class Philip
Jackson of the
Seabees declar -
ed: “Japan! And
we’ll have a
harder job on
our hands de-
feating the JaPs
than we’ll have
knocking 0111 the
Germans, since
the little yellow guys don’t seem
to do much surrendering. I don t
think there’s any doubt that
they’re our greater enemy.”
“Japan is uncivilized,” said Pfc.

Valentine Parera, groom of
Grace Moore, the opera thrush,
applied in court for permission
to change ^.his name to Parara.
Everybody called him Parara
and he always corrected them.
But the other day he got an auto-
graphed photo from President
Roosevelt inscribed “To Valentin
Parara,” so he figured it was
easier to change his name.
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Book publishers seem to be
racking their brains trying to fig-
ure out how to beat the glue
shortage .... The looney tune,
“Mairzy Deatz,” may have some
competition soon. Band-leader
George Morris is working on a
novelty, with the aid of a film
biggie and the executive editor
of a large newspaper .... Audi-
ences at Orson Welles’ radio
broadcast get a double dose. Be-
fore he actually goes on the air,
Orson puts on a complete magic
show.
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Everything showman Billy Rose
touches seems to turn to gold,
or something. Latest master-
stroke is selling the movie rights
to his stage show, “Carmen Jon-
es,” to 20th Century-Fox for a
reported 500 grand, plus percent-
age of the receipts. Lena Horne
is mentioned for the title role of
Carmen .. . Marlene Dietrich
started off on her tour of the
camps with 10,000 extra garters.
The dainty gadgtes, just the size
for the famous Dietrich legs, will
be tossed to soldier audiences,
as souvenirs of the star’s visits.
Hollywood went hook, line
and sinker for “hate pictures”
when the Government dropped
the ban on Jap brutality stories,
First is Daryll Zanuck’s “Purple
Heart” based on the execution
of American flyers who raided
Tokyo. RKO’s contribution is
“This is my Brother” from the
Louis Paul novel about five sol-
diers in a Jap prison camp. Mono-
gram’s working on “I was a Pri-
soner of Japan,” and Republic’s,
preparing a flicker titled “The
Death March” from the descrip-
tion by Lt: Col. Dyess, one of the
three officers who escaped ^rom
the Jap prison camp in Philip-
pines. The writer is Curt Sido-
mak, the horror specialist, who
turned out “Donovan’s Brain”
and, “Lady and the Monster.”
Bob Hope recently received
8,342 fan letters in one day —
all time high for Bob .... Af-
rica-bound, John Garfield and
Eddie Foy, Jr., took light clothes.
Then they played in Newfound-
land enroute — and almost froze
.... Sign in a jewelry show
window in Hollywood (over
wedding ring tray): “Is the feel-
ing nuptial?” .... Paulette God-
dard, first American actress to
visit wartime China, has arrived
in Chungking with three fellow
troopers — comedians Bill Garg-
an and Keenan Wynn and ac-
cordionist Andy Arouri .... Col.
Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle now sug-
gests making square bathtubs, for
not leaving “rings” in ’em,
Emmet Goode,
an Air Corps
man from Rich-
mond, Virginia,
“While civiliza-
tion certainly
wouldn’t be on
a very high leve
if Germany rul-
ed the world,
it would be worse yet if the Japs
did. I believe that Japanese bar-
barity threatens the entire white
race.”
“The Japanese torture of pris-
oners and theii
brutality to-
wards the peop-
le they have con-
quered exceeds
even that of the
Germans. There
is no doubt ab-
out it — °ur
greater enemy lS
Japan,” was the reply of Pvt-
Percy Huntington of the AAA-
“The Japs are absolutely unciv-
ilized.”
‘Just Practical J'
Working on the theory that
actual drilling is less painful
than heat generated in the tooth
by the drill, Col. A. P. Matthews,
chief of the dental services of
the Sixth Service Command
Chicago, is experimenting with
a new dental technique.
According to Matthews, to re
duce the heat in the tooth caus
ed by friction of the drill, c’
constant stream of water, a
room temperature, is poured inl°
the patient’s mouth with a sec"
ond tube drawing it out. the
new technique is described as
“practically painless.”